It takes Dayana Saldana Meija a minute to collect herself.
Since the fatal car collision in Newport Beach that killed her brother and sister-in-law on Dec. 8, she’s been focused on taking care of the three children left behind.
She said she was doing all right. Better, she adds. Her voice still falters when she speaks about Henry Saldana Meija or Gabriela Andrade, or about her nieces, Samantha Belen, 1, Elena Sareen, 4, and Emma Sofia, 5.
What could she say about her brother?
About the sister she’d never had?
“As parents, they were very loving. They were always together,” Dayana Saldana Meija said from her Santa Ana home on Monday. “They went for a ride together that [Dec. 8] night. My brother used to work a lot, but he was taking a break from work and Gabby was a stay-at-home mom, so she was always with [the girls].”